Introduction to the Simple Web Frontend, Common Object Model, Business Processe
Go through the build, integrations, and some of the design patterns used in creating an online demonstration based on GlassFish Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) 2.2. In a series of blog entries, readers will be taken through the process of building Oracle-Sun’s UK-Pre-Sales team’s new Cars Online Demonstration. Originally built using the SeeBeyond ICAN product set, it was decided to try and build the demo using GlassFish ESB 2.2 to leverage its functionality and flexibility.
Architect a Highly Available GlassFish ESB Solution Right from the Planning Stage
GlassFish Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is a lightweight and agile integration product suite for services-based and composite application development. A recently released Sun white paper details a reference architecture for a typical deployment solution based on a real-world system that manages a customer’s loan application process. The solution accepts requests via web services-based interfaces, manages corresponding business processes, handles faults correctly and integrates with existing back-end systems.
Developing a Complete, Complex, End-to-end, Real-World Process
According to Dr. Matjaz B. Juric, the most important benefits of a process-centric SOA approach are better alignment between business and IT, fewer errors, and faster development cycles. These benefits are outlined in a case study he covers as part of the “Enterprise Solution Cookbook” article series hosted by Oracle. His writing focuses on process-driven SOA development and how to develop end-to-end business process support following the full SOA life cycle.
Newly Integrated IT Architecture Gives Provider the Agility Needed to Handle Claim Load
The Canadian health insurer Mediavie Blue Cross solved the problem it was experiencing with disparate legacy architecture by implementing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) comprising several Sun solutions. A first step in the migration involved deploying an enterprise-service bus (ESB) that integrates legacy applications to manage claims processing. In restructuring the company’s enterprise architecture, Mediavie IT personnel relied on Sun product managers, the open-source community, and Sun Educational Services for advice and training.
Increased Development Cycles up to 50%, Decreased TCO by about 50% for One Telecom
The Netherland’s third largest provider of fixed-telephony services, Pretium Telecom, wanted to simplify its service-oriented architecture (SOA), to speed up the development of a new VoIP offering and to minimize costs. After evaluating possible solutions from Sun, Apache and JBoss, Pretium Telecom and its IT vendor Yenlo concluded that replacing the current SOA Suite with Sun GlassFish Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server could provide the required functionality in a smaller, more agile, open-standards–based framework.
How Customers Can Improve Their Apps/Projects with GlassFish ESB’s Features
Sun GlassFish Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) combines stable components from OpenESB and the GlassFish application server as well as the NetBeans IDE, into a free-to-download single binary distribution, for which commercial support is also available from Sun. Released in June, GlassFish ESB 2.1 is ideal for small to medium businesses trying to implement integration solutions and composite applications, or for enterprise customers’ departmental projects. It offers enterprise-level support for its core components and lowers the barrier to entry by limiting the capability to the core ESB platform and making the product available in a per-server subscription model.
Sun GlassFish Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) delivers a lightweight and agile ESB platform that packages the innovation happening with Project OpenESB into a commercially supported, enterprise-class platform. Version 2.1 is the latest release. Sun does offer commercial support for this new version that offers multiple new features and components and resolves many runtime and design time issues.
